Re: Scheduled Transfer Protocol on Linux

From: Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm+eric@ccr.net)
Date: Sun Feb 13 2000 - 18:35:41 EST


>
> The main reason that the drive guys are looking at stuff like this is
> margin. Drive companies are more or less giving away their products,
> the margins are very thin and the competition is very tough. What the
> drive guys would _LOVE_ is a way to add enough value that they can
> raise the cost. I suspect that when these drives come out, they'll
> be a hell of a lot more than the $300 I hope for. They'll be around
> $1000 or so. The company that comes out with them first will enjoy
> a certain amount of success and then there will be competition and the
> prices will get driven down.

see:
http://pcconnection.com/scripts/productdetail.asp?product_id=98642
They seem to have an 8GB version of this idea for $500....

Eric

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